An Inside-Outside Alliance
For Campaign-Finance Reform?

John McCain left the House 15 years ago but as political machinations intensify over campaign-finance reform, his presence is still very much in evidence.

The stakes are huge. A majority of House members voted for campaign-finance reform in the last Congress, but now that the Senate has approved McCain-Feingold and there is a real prospect of changing a system that so enriches incumbents, more than a few supposed supporters are...